Refrigerators

No. The doors of the fridge have insulation in them, and the magnetic force does not affect temperature inside the fridge whatsoever.

I'm not sure exactly on the year but these three digit model number Kelvinators are very old, they predate the concept of energy electricity. Very heavy duty materials, as was the custom when they first started making electrical goods (this was before consumer expectation levels dropped low enough to tolerate poor quality appliances, the advertising was enough to sell an appliance of any level of craftsmanship).

In fact it is likely that your fridge requires the burning of 4 times as much coal compared to the fancy new ones, and costing 4 times as much money to run (the fridge is the second highest energy consumer in the house, after air conditioning of course). Not to mention that it is quite an unusually large energy drain, these really old fridges, which is going to be a problem because a lot of houses built in the decades after that fridge was built were not designed to deliver that much electricity to a single outlet, I have done thousands of jobs on tripped/damaged breakers on this alone (and Even more hours repairing and upgrading entire systems when the installed breakers woild not ever stop tripping under these really old units.

A unit this old should not be used. It should not very given away either, it needs to be taken out of use by calling your cities information services and asking for the number of who to call about something like this.

i cant tell you exactly what year it was made dont no what this other guys problem is^^ answer the question at hand PLEASE!!!!! i have one myself and i do use it gotta love the classics our energy bill is still cheaper then our friends anyway. It is about 1956 - 1958 somewhere in that gap :D

Meats do not last long in the refrigerator. Only about 3 to 4 days if it is raw. Then 1 to 2 days longer if cooked and placed in an airtight container. You should always cover meats when stored in the fridge.

Hollow ice cubes are faster to make and have more surface area in your drink.

physics.

The root of the word originated in the early 1500's most likely latin origin. Even before written word though man knew that cold kept food fresh. From digging a hole in the ground to the most elaborate refrigerations we have in operation today, there has also been an ice-box as many of the people growing up in the 20th century now about.

* * hi, if you open the fridge door look at the top or round the frame on my fridge there is a plastic switch type lever type thing push that and the light goes off

hope this helps,

netya

If garbanzo beans are cooked, they will stay fresh in the refrigerator for 3 days. If they are dry, they can be stored in the pantry for a year.

How much it would cost to add Freon to your refrigerator will vary based on several factors. The cost is determined by your supplier and the amount required with the average cost is being about $8.

Dometic refrigerators are made in 6 countries: China, Germany, Hungary, Luxemburg, Sweden and South Africa.

Fortunately, A refrigerator is a food/drink cooling appliance. which can be a combination of a freezer (Refrigerator: bottom | Freezer: up).



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An Refridgerator is an where you store foods at normal temparture,and where you chill bevegages.
A refrigerator (commonly called a "fridge") is a cooling apparatus. The common household appliance comprises a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump-chemical or mechanical means-to transfer heat from it to the external environment (i.e., the room in which it is located), cooling the contents to a temperature below ambient. Cooling is a popular food storage technique in developed countries and works by decreasing the reproduction rate of bacteria. The device is thus used to reduce the rate of spoilage of foodstuffs.
an appliance or compartment that is artificially kept cool and used to store food and drink. Modern refrigerators generally make use of the cooling effect produced when a volatile liquid is forced to evaporate in a sealed system in which it can be condensed back to liquid outside the refrigerator.

The first refrigerator cars came into service in the mid 1800's. The need for the units, called reefers, was obvious - farmers and food merchandisers wanted to get quantities of perishable foodstuffs from the places where they were grown/raised to distant urban markets quickly and in quantity. Coolness had to happen. The first reefers were cooled with big blocks of ice, but that limited the use of the reefers (a form of rolling stock) to times when quantities of ice were available. Big ice cutting operations were set up at locations and at times when large quantities of ice could be harvested from lakes. The ice was stored in icehouses at the rail yards (think sawdust insulation), and it was moved from storage into the ice compartments of the reefers by men called ice hogs. There was some early rejection and competition, but Swift muscled in and got some cars rolling. His effectiveness at getting meat carcasses to market in Boston from the west put him near the front of the pack in the meat business. (Swift is still a respected name in meat products.) Lots more information and some cool pictures and drawings can be had at Wikipedia refrigerator car post. Need a link? Say the word and you got it.

Its a contraction of Frigidaire, the name of the company that in 1916 were the first manufacturer of self contained refrigerators.

The Freezer.

No, John Standard did not invent the refrigerator. The man who invented the refrigerator was named Oliver Evans. He invented the fridge in the year of 1805.

The refrigerator was no invented by an African American pr in America at all.

In 1873 Carl von Linde built the first practical and portable compressor refrigeration machine in Munich, Germany.

The metal at the back of the fridge doesn't make the inside cold, rather it takes out the heat from the inside.

A refrigerator (often called a "fridge" for short) is a cooling appliance comprising a thermally insulated compartment and a mechanism to transfer heat from it to the external environment, cooling the contents to a temperature below ambient. Refrigerators are extensively used to store foods which deteriorate at ambient temperatures; spoilage from bacterial growth and other processes is much slower at low temperatures. A device described as a "refrigerator" maintains a temperature a few degrees above the freezing point of water; a similar device which maintains a temperature below the freezing point of water is called a "freezer". The refrigerator is a relatively modern invention amongst kitchen appliances. It replaced the common icebox which had been placed outside for almost a century and a half prior, and is sometimes still called by the original name "icebox". Freezers keep their contents, usually foods, frozen. They are used both in households and for commercial use. Most freezers operate at around -18 °C (0 °F). Domestic freezers can be included as a compartment in a refrigerator, sharing the same mechanism or with a separate mechanism, or can be standalone units. Domestic freezers are generally upright units, resembling refrigerators, or chests, resembling upright units laid on their backs. Many modern freezers come with an icemaker. Commercial fridge and freezer units, which go by many other names, were in use for almost 40 years prior to the common home models. They used toxic ammonia gas systems, making them unsafe for home use. Practical household refrigerators were introduced in the 1915 and gained wider acceptance in the United States in the 1930s as prices fell and non-toxic, non-flammable synthetic refrigerants such as Freon or R-12 were introduced. It is notable that while 60% of households in the US owned a refrigerator by the 1930s, it was not until 40 years later, in the 1970s, that the refrigerator achieved a similar level of penetration in the United Kingdom Refrigerators work by the use of heat pumps operating in a refrigeration cycle. An industrial refrigerator is simply a refrigerator used in an industrial setting, usually in a restaurant or supermarket. They may consist of either a cooling compartment only (a larger refrigerator) or a freezing compartment only (a freezer) or contain both. The industry has nicknames for these units as well sometimes referring to them as a “cold box” or a “walk-in.” The dual compartment was introduced commercially by General Electric in 1939. The vapor compression cycle is used in most household refrigerators. In this cycle, a circulating refrigerant such as freon enters the compressor as a vapor at its boiling point. The vapor is compressed and exits the compressor as a superheated vapor. The superheated vapor travels through part of the condenser which removes the superheat by cooling the vapor. The vapor travels through the remainder of the condenser and is condensed into a liquid at its boiling point. The saturated liquid refrigerant passes through the expansion valve where its pressure abruptly decreases. The decrease in pressure results in the flash evaporation and auto-refrigeration of a portion of the liquid (typically, less than half of the liquid flashes). The cold and partially vaporized refrigerant travels through the coil or tubes in the evaporator. There a fan circulates room air across the coil or tubes, and the refrigerant is totally vaporized, extracting heat from the air which is then returned to the food compartment. The refrigerant vapor returns to the compressor inlet to complete the thermodynamic cycle. An absorption refrigerator works differently from a compressor refrigerator, using a source of heat, and typically runs more quietly. The Peltier effect uses electricity directly to pump heat; refrigerators using this effect are sometimes used for camping, or where noise is not acceptable. They are totally silent, but less energy-efficient than other methods. Other alternatives to the vapor-compression cycle but not in current use include thermionic, vortex tube, air cycle, magnetic cooling, Stirling cycle, Malone refrigeration, acoustic cooling, pulse tube and water cycle systems.

Turn off the refrigerator when you have removed all of the food and have cleaned it thoroughly. Otherwise, you risk trapping in odors of spoiled food, bacteria and such.

My refrigerator appears to be an enamel finish, light tan in color. I first tried COMET on a wet wash rag, that seem to help some, but did not really come close to removing the magnet stains totally. Then I used an old toothbrush, wet with water and toothpaste. A feeling of optimism came over me as I saw the stains begin to dissappear. It seems to work best with a good lather, so keep it wet. Most dentists recommend brushing for at least 2 minutes! May not be 100%, but you'd have to look pretty close to find them. Since I used the COMET first, I don't know if that step is necessary, or if the toothpaste alone is sufficient.

The only really effective way is to use a de-humidifier. I have this problem in a sun room whenever it's very cool or rainy weather. I looked around and found many small de-humidifiers costing less than $200. I bought one at Rona for 140 and it really does the trick. When switched on this takes about a gallon of water per day out of the air in my sun room.

$67.74 using 120 volts.

Great job on the math, but a refrigerator doesn't run 24 hours a day. It runs off of a thermostat and has periods of off/on. It depends on the climate in which you live (i.e. how hot it is in your house) as to how often your refrigerator kicks on. Its actually really hard to keep track of. If you buy a "Kill A Watt" meter, you can plug your fridge into it and it will tell you how many watts the fridge has actually used in a day. It probably only runs a few hours total each day!

you need the temperature in a freezer to be colder that its' surrounding area for it to work properly